as a 2007er I agree with astralvoyager's comment, even though the signup date isn't an indicator of how long a person has been here, and how long a person has been here shouldn't add weight to your arguments anyway.

I know you people will not like this suggestion, but I think we need to bring back featured users and just suck it up when non-featured users bitch and complain. Think about it, YTMND was awesome when there were featured users.

YTMND for the rest of it's functioning life will be like SNL: perpetually never good as it once was, you know ... way back when those funny people were there. Weren't they great? Now it's all these kids.

Translation: We the old horde and our 20+ alts can't skew the voting outcome to what we believed to be funny or not anymore since max implemented the alt deleting bot and began deleting all our alts. Most of us left because we couldn't live without our alting skew. We just don't tolerate unfunny sites even if they are thought provoking and socially significant.

part of the magic of early YTMND was definitely the hip "before it gets mainstream" appeal - seeing it evolve and thrive as an internet community, generating fads/memes and getting in wars with other sites. but the fad aspect of YTMND was its downfall. for every clever, original site there were plenty of ripoffs. this nostalgia over great sites in the absence of actually making good content is so bad here that it's gotten to the point where the top rated site is a complaint that "YTMND isn't as good as it used to be." also, cocks

Sidenote: Maybe this will mark a resurrection movement. But the horrible layout, awful colors and advertisements that penetrate one's every orifice have been an April Fool's joke that has lasted way too long.